On 04-Apr-99 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
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> I've got one going at the moment where Kmail works fine until I
> install XF Mail. Then Kmail stops working and XF Mail won't do
> anything either. Any help from Ted Harding would be appreciated with
> this one. I thought about sending a bug report to Gennady about it.
I wouldn't try contacting Gennady -- From what I read between the lines
when the xfmail list was active, Gennady worked like a madman on XFMail
until he was about to finish his PhD, then went quiet, and hasn't been
heard from since (and if anyone else has some news from that front I'd
be most grateful to hear).
XFMail: I'd say the following to anyone intending to start XFMail:
1. If you're using UNIX-style mailfolders (i.e. all messages in one
big file, inbox = /var/spool/mail/userid or the like, stored mail
in similar folders under maybe ~/Mail), then
a) make a backup copy of your inbox;
b) ditto for your home Mail folder directory (or, better, "mv" it to a
backup name);
2. Then, and only then, start up XFMail. It will "explode" your inbox and
distribute the messages as individual files in an "MH"-style layout
under ~/Mail (which it will create if necessary), the stuff from inbox
going into ~/Mail/inbox/* (you can recreate "elm" style - UNIX -
mailboxes from within XFMail if you want to).
Once that is done, XFMail should operate straightforwardly. It operates a
fairly sophisticated indexing/caching system, and stores a lot of
relevant information in ~/Mail/.ftemp, ~/Mail/.mbox, and in several files
under ~/.xfmail/.*; and other folders (default folders and any you create
are DIRECTORIES used for storing mail messages as separate files; all of
which it will create first time round. So you don't want anything there
already which might interfere with this, or might get interfered with by
it.
Independent documentation is very sparse. However, the builtin "Help"
is adequate, though at times a bit obscure or confusing.
One problem with XFMail: many operations require a double-click.
The Qt libraries used in XFMail seem to have trouble detecting or reacting
properly to double clicks, and you may have to practice your physical
mouse technique to get the timing right!
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Kmail, on the other hand, pulls down your UNIX /var/spool/mail/userid
and stores it as a UNIX-type mail folder in the FILE ~/Mail/inbox.
Hence, the ways that Kmail and XFMail handle mail are incompatible
(which probaboy explains, Richard, why you had problems each way).
Hope this helps any who are interested!
Ted.
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Date: 04-Apr-99 Time: 21:14:44
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